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...cities had but half a panel each.) Attributed to Barthélemy d'Eyck, the magnificent altarpiece, depicting an angel appearing to the Virgin Mary, conceals the devils in its details: a dragon and a bat in the Gothic arches above the angel's head, a monkey dancing on Mary's lectern, a vase on the floor holding foxglove, belladonna and basil - all three sorcerers' plants...
While psychology and biological anthropology students have played in Professor of Psychology Marc Hauser’s Monkey labs for a number of years now, this is an unusual development in either biology or chemistry departments, according...
...author of dozens of plays including The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail and Auntie Mame; in Malibu, California. Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, his collaborator for more than 50 years, often used history as a vehicle for commentary on controversial current events. Inherit the Wind focused on the 1925 "Monkey Trial" of John Thomas Scopes, a teacher accused of teaching evolution, but it was really about intolerance in the McCarthy era. The 1955 play "was written because we were indignant, appalled at thought control in the mid-'50s," Lawrence told the Los Angeles Times...
...intriguing network of brain researchers and economists who are using advanced medical technology to try to figure out why people make the decisions they do--what brand of cereal, which mutual fund--and what part of the brain tells them to do so. "We're much further along with monkeys because we can use [implanted] electrodes and measure single neurons," Glimcher says. In experiments, computer data will tell him what a monkey is going to do seconds before the creature does it. Human see, monkey...
Glimcher says while he can't peer inside a human's brain as he can a monkey's, "stuff like that is rapidly becoming possible." Certainly we'd torture ourselves much less over a potential impulse buy if we could just know in advance whether we were going to like...